by pokeefe0001 » Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:36 pm
Peke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 8:26 pm
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What you want to archive, from what I see you want clone of Now playing that can be docked or undocked to other screen?
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No. I want to move the existing Now Playing panel off of a monitor that does not exist on the computer running MM.
We often run a portable MM on a computer with an external monitor. We move the Now Playing panel to that monitor. But people often forget to move Now Playing back to the primary display when they are shutting down. If that portable MM is then run on a computer with no external monitor the Now Playing panel is either missing altogether or just the bottom right part is displayed. In either case the title bar is not available so the panel cannot be dragged back to the primary display.
I want a script that changes the DockedTo property of Now Playing - the real Now Playing, not a clone - to DockRight. An alternative would be to start MM from a bat file that first overlays the MediaMonkey.registry file with a saved copy that has DockedTo=DockRight. That works, but it wipes out other parameters saved at shutdown, and it would do no good ig someone starts MM directly rather than using the .bat file.
I know we could right click in the Now Playing panel, select View, and uncheck "Dock to Window" but having it in its own window is inconvenient for drag-and-drop adding to the Now Playing list. Also, documenting the undocked behavior for people who don't know MediaMonkey - most of those in our group that run it - would be difficult. And there are only one or two of us that even know about the Dock to Window attribute.
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What you want to archive, from what I see you want clone of Now playing that can be docked or undocked to other screen?
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No. I want to move the existing Now Playing panel off of a monitor that does not exist on the computer running MM.
We often run a portable MM on a computer with an external monitor. We move the Now Playing panel to that monitor. But people often forget to move Now Playing back to the primary display when they are shutting down. If that portable MM is then run on a computer with no external monitor the Now Playing panel is either missing altogether or just the bottom right part is displayed. In either case the title bar is not available so the panel cannot be dragged back to the primary display.
I want a script that changes the DockedTo property of Now Playing - the real Now Playing, not a clone - to DockRight. An alternative would be to start MM from a bat file that first overlays the MediaMonkey.registry file with a saved copy that has DockedTo=DockRight. That works, but it wipes out other parameters saved at shutdown, and it would do no good ig someone starts MM directly rather than using the .bat file.
I know we could right click in the Now Playing panel, select View, and uncheck "Dock to Window" but having it in its own window is inconvenient for drag-and-drop adding to the Now Playing list. Also, documenting the undocked behavior for people who don't know MediaMonkey - most of those in our group that run it - would be difficult. And there are only one or two of us that even know about the Dock to Window attribute.